At a Paris climate change assembly,the celebrated Brazilian photographer joined Bishop Fredrick Shoo of Tanzania in extolling the merits of reseeding forestsWhen the renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado took over family land in the state of Minas Gerais, instead of the tropical paradise that he remembered as a child, and he found the trees cut down and the wildlife gone. He was devastated. It was 1994 and he had just returned from a traumatic assignment reporting on the genocide in Rwanda,he told a assembly of religious leaders discussing climate change in Paris final week. Related: Ethiopia powers up ambitions for green industry | William Davison Related: What is the millennium development goal on sustainability all approximately? | Sam Jones Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com